bidding
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A Friday morning rush hour of intense bidding sent the one-of-one Cooper Flagg Topps Rookie Debut Patch Card skyrocketing at auction, selling for $8.04 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Marr's 1982 Rickenbacker 330 Jetglo sold for £358,400 after attracting a bidding battle lasting more than five minutes.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Netflix has explored bidding for the rights to the Emmy Awards in recent years, but the streamer was not able to come up with a deal that made economic sense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Live sports remain one of the few types of programming that can reliably draw large audiences, fueling a bidding war among media companies and streaming services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Many others of Elrond’s household stood in the shadows and watched them go, bidding them farewell with soft voices.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"Not only will we wipe out every potential influence on public biddings – we will also make the process much faster, much more efficient and totally accountable."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
In a 2013 email to dozens of senior staff at Siemens China, the manager, Cao Yong Sheng, pointed to a “huge gap between biddings and contracts,” and asked, “Where’s the gap going?”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Peter reluctantly admitted that Mr. Lukach, when inclined, could use his prowess as a healer for darker biddings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2017
The young minds here are trained to realise that the biddings of their inner life are more interesting and reliable than any processes merely mental can possibly be.
From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort
It was among his pleasant ways to attend book-sales, there to watch the biddings of persons on whose judgment he relied, and cut in as the contest was becoming critical.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton